Israeli archaeologists discover ancient winemaking complex:
Israeli archaeologists on Monday said they have unearthed a massive ancient winemaking complex dating back some 1,500 years.
The complex, discovered in the central town of Yavne, includes five wine presses, warehouses, kilns for producing clay storage vessels and tens of thousands of fragments and jars, they said.
Israel's Antiquities Authority said the discovery shows that Yavne was a wine-making powerhouse during the Byzantine period. Researchers estimate the facility could produce some 2 million liters (over 520,000 gallons) of wine a year.
Jon Seligman, one of the directors of the excavation, said the wine made in the area was known as "Gaza" wine and exported across the region.
[...] Seligman said wine was not just an important export and source of enjoyment in ancient times. "Beyond that, this was a major source of nutrition and this was a safe drink because the water was often contaminated, so they could drink wine safely," he said.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Username on Tuesday October 12 2021, @08:07AM (1 child)
Or, more specifically, in the Roman province of Palaestina, one makes wine and debates the arguments of whether or not christ was a human who held the holy spirit or was a divine existence unto himself. The beginning of the great schism.
PS: You only get to debate this for about 250? more years until a caliphate forces you to convert to islam, then there is no debate.
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Tuesday October 12 2021, @10:08AM
That also helps to date the complex, it wouldn't have been around in Jesus' time, they'd just bottle up some water and it'd become wine later. Damn unfair competition!